A look at the best news photos from around the world.
March 17, 2015

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People wash their clothes on the beach at Lenakel town in Tanna, days after Cyclone Pam hit the South Pacific island nation. International aid agencies began emergency flights to some of the remote outer islands of Vanuatu, which they fear have been devastated by the monster cyclone.

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A man dressed as a Leprechaun reads a newspaper during St Patrick's Day festivities in the city of Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

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Phil Blackwood, a bar manager from New Zealand, falls into a police vehicle as he is taken away after being sentenced to two and half years in prison, at Bahan township court in Yangon. Blackwood was found guilty of insulting religion after publishing a psychedelic image of Buddha wearing headphones to promote his bar in Yangon.

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The 'Frecce Tricolori', the Italian Air Force acrobatic team flies over Rome to mark the 154th anniversary of the Italian Unification in 1861.